On Fri, 20 Dec 1996 19:46:01 -0800 (PST) Berg <berg@eskimo.com> said:
> Why? Because most mailreaders have the option to display full
>mail headers, but most people disable that feature. It is not the fault
>of the listowner that people choose not to see something they are
>capable of seeing.
Surely you must have laws in the US about fine print on the back of an
agreement, you know, the ones in light gray on a dark gray background.
These laws are based on the fact that if you go out of your way to make
sure someone doesn't see a warning, you can't later claim that this
person should have seen the warning, even though most people do have the
ability to read these warnings with a good light and possibly a magnifier
glass. The same applies here. Thousands of people could make a genuine
mistake because YOU went out of your way to hide the banner from them,
when the natural thing is to put the copyright at or near the top of the
text itself, like everyone else does. If you're lucky you'll be found
negligent (ie technically incompetent). If you're unlucky the court will
think you were trying to be deceitful. And that's assuming that there WAS
a command to display these headers and they were not removed by a
gateway.
This being said, you don't need a copyright banner to exercise your
rights.
Eric
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